Such courses, Hacker argues, are a remedy for the numerical illiteracy of adults who have completed high-level math like algebra but are unable to calculate the price of a carpet by area.

哈克认为，这样的课程可以弥补成年人在数字方面的盲点，这些人已经完成了像代数这样的高级数学，但却无法按面积计算出一块地毯的价格。

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Such courses, Hacker argues, are a remedy for the numerical illiteracy of adults who have completed high-level math like algebra but are unable to calculate the price of, say, a carpet by area.

哈克认为，这样的课程可以弥补成年人在数字方面的盲点，这些人虽然已经学习了像代数这样的高等数学，但却无法按面积计算出一块地毯的价格。

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Calculate the price of the tie.

试算出领带的价钱。

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Thus it makes a big difference how you calculate the price of housing.

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As the railway lines have been upgraded over the years, the price differences between rural and London housing have shrunk and as that example shows, you can actually calculate the price difference to a fair degree of accuracy.

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One way to gauge support for the price of oil is to calculate the breakeven price.

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